History Quality Assurance Lead (QAL)

About this role

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a History Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across history-focused AI training projects. You will review AI-generated history content and trainer/QA work, evaluate output quality against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, and ensure that all contributors follow the expected quality standards.

History, Historical Analysis, Historiography

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check history items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
• Historical review: Evaluate AI-generated history explanations, timelines, comparisons, summaries, source-based answers, and reasoning for accuracy, context, balance, and clarity.
• Trainer and QA communication: Update trainers and QAs on Discord about new item guidelines, project changes, workflow updates, quality expectations, and history-specific review standards.
• Question handling: Respond to trainer/QA questions clearly and promptly, especially around chronology, historical context, source interpretation, disputed interpretations, and bias.
• Trainer/QA activation management: DM contributors who are inactive or not working, encourage activation, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues when needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in History, Classics, Area Studies, Archaeology, Political History, Cultural History, International Relations, Humanities, or a closely related field.
• Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear written feedback.
• 3+ years of experience in historical research, teaching, writing, editing, academic review, museum/archival work, curriculum development, or related humanities workflows.
• Strong understanding of historical methods, chronology, primary vs secondary sources, historiography, causation, continuity/change, regional context, and evidence-based interpretation.
• Ability to evaluate historical content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as anachronism, incorrect chronology, unsupported claims, oversimplification, or biased framing.